There is an interesting issue just out - Good Old Boat magazine that also is on this race, it also has a fine article about some of the great authors of similar adventures. Inspired me to go to Amazon and add 9 more books to my library
It’s funny, the editor/publisher couple of GOB live about a mile from Nabil in Minneapolis, but they chose to interview the guy in Florida instead!There is an interesting issue just out - Good Old Boat magazine that also is on this race, it also has a fine article about some of the great authors of similar adventures. Inspired me to go to Amazon and add 9 more books to my library
I said "almost"@Roadking Larry don’t you also need to have one of the specified boats.
2018 Golden Globe Race approved designs: Westsail 32 • Tradewind 35 • Saga 34 • Saltram 36 • Vancouver 32 & 34 • OE 32 • Eric (sister ship to Suhaili) • Aries 32 • Baba 35 • Biscay 36 • Bowman 36 • Cape Dory 36 • Nicholson 32 MKX-XI • Rustler 36, Endurance 35, Gaia 36, Hans Christian 33T, Tashiba 36, Cabo Rico 34, Hinckley Pilot 35, Lello 34, Gale Force 34.
So are they carrying all the food and water?They are averaging about 70nm/day. At that rate they will run out of food and water.
Yes. For 300 days.So are they carrying all the food and water?
For sure, they will pick up speed and miles/day when they get in reliable breeze!A couple of them have have shown over 100nm in a 24 hour span. And, I'd hope they'd have figured for a little slack on food stores.
So might boat choice. All of the leaders are sailing a Rustler 36, a design so well regarded that it remains in production to this day.Fishing might help the food supply. Collect water in the rain storms! Stretch the food supply out by rationing. Major factors in this race include endurance, ingenuity, stamina, resourcefulness, luck … (so says Captain Obvious! )
Nice place to wait out anything. My parents retired to Hinson's Island in Bermuda's Great Sound. Many happy memories of summers and other visits there.We waited out TS Andrew in Burmuda.
You might really enjoy the book, We the Navigators, the story of how the Polynesians navigated. Sure, Europeans circumnavigated and crossed oceans to continents using latitude sailing, but the Polynesians made recurrent voyages to small islands as much as 3000 miles apart with regularity!It’s wild. He has no weather service access, so he’s blind to the wind all around him, or when it might hit him.